Grinding my way to level 10

Week 9: October 26, 2008

I am a level 10 priest after almost 9 weeks of playing. Granted, I don’t get to spend a lot of time on the game, so it amounts to less than a 40 hour work week (maybe), however, I can see why people buy guides and spend real money to skip some of the tedium or “work” of playing such MMORPGs. It also makes sense that having time consuming parts (running, building skills, leveling) all help MMO companies build revenue through monthly subscriptions.

With the large number of players and a high player dedication, there are other ways of making revenue also.

There is an amazing amount of places to purchase gold and level characters. The first kind of website I cam across was the people who are trying to sell their own guides to WoW. They boast of being able to quicken game time instead of drawing it out like the company (Blizzard) may prefer. Brian Kopp’s guide is one of them:

http://www.briankopp.com/?hop=shtmlssl

From there, I found other gold making guides claiming to be legitimate and game-play legal. People claim to be able to make 100 gold (in game) per hour by knowing some tricks and of course, they are for sale:

This is Luke Brown’s website where he has a video to show you that he has a character that has a lot of money, weapons, and armor in minimal playing time:
http://gold-secrets.my-guide.ws/

Wayne Williams:
http://www.wealthofwarcraft.com/?gclid=CNCYteP8xZYCFRlRagod1RGbyA